Rare things are more valuable.
Gu Tongxiang knows that the way to make a painting method the most valuable is to become the founder of a sect and turn this painting method into a prominent school in the field of art.
For example, Picasso’s Cubism, Turner’s Romanticism or Renoir’s Impressionism.
Secondly, the fewer painters who know this painting method, the better.
It would be best if no one else could play except you, with the only skill in the world.
When Mr. Cao Xuan called Cui Xuanyou for advice, Cui Xuanyou would rather refuse Mr. Cao's favor than give Gu Weijing advice to find a competitor for his son Xiao Cui.
No matter what the possibility is, Gu Tongxiang does not want to share the spotlight on his grandson.
Even if he is the other person’s grandfather.
Even if he firmly believes that Gu Weijing’s skills will be more successful than his own in the future.
The old man would still rather give up his dream than let this happen.
"Well, it's not a big problem. This unique painting style is already in short supply. There are so few people painting, so having one more Mr. Gu won't be a big problem. As long as Gu Weijing's painting functions will be better in the future Going up a level and reaching the level of a true master will actually do more good than harm in the long run."
Hanks explained with a smile.
Hanks is a professional manager, and his career planning for artists is more complete than the artist himself.
In his mind, ideally, the future career plans of Gu Weijing and Gu Tongxiang should not be a competitive relationship, but a gradient relationship.
As long as Gu Weijing's skill level can significantly exceed Gu Tongxiang's level.
With the marketing strength of Ma Shi Gallery, it can create a sales level for the works of the grandfather and grandson.
It is the kind of sales between ultra-luxury brands and luxury brands that are under the same general group and use exactly the same engines and chassis components, such as Maybach and Mercedes-Benz, Rolls-Royce and BMW. gradient.
Gu Weijing’s target customers are mainly old-school senior collectors.
Gu Tongxiang is aimed at the urban middle class who want to invest in art, as an alternative to Gu Weijing's version of "fusion paintings" that cannot afford it.
Impressionism in auction houses also has this invisible sales gradient.
If you can’t afford Monet, you can buy Renoir or Manet.
If you can’t afford it anymore, you can consider Pissarro or Degas.
Then there are the relatively cheaper Morisot, Seurat and the only female Impressionist master Miss Marie
Hanks This is a very long-term vision, completely established On the basis that the name Gu Weijing will become valuable enough in the future.
It’s too early to tell now.
"No, if you don't ask for the type of my painting method, just let me express myself freely. As long as it is agreed, I can't ask for it. If you still ask me to suck the blood of my grandson, I would rather notsign. "
Gu Tongxiang is still as stubborn as a stubborn donkey.
"Old Man"
Hanks helplessly wanted to enlighten Gu Tongxiang's elm head. Gu Weijing on the side interrupted him with a smile.
"Grandpa, don't worry. The inventor of new body painting is Castiglione, I am just an imitator. If you say outside that this is my way of painting, you will make people laugh. Mr. Ma Shi is right, since there are Castiglione's pearls in front of you, you are also one of them. Secondly"
Listening to what his grandfather said before,
Gu Weijing's heart was filled with warmth.
Poor parents in the world.
It is true that only a close elder would consider himself so thoughtfully, for fear of delaying his future.
"I am also trying to continue painting in the New Body Painting School. Incorporate new artistic elements into the painting method to form your own artistic style without spending too much time on pure imitation. So you can sign the contract with confidence. ”
Gu Weijing smiled.
Blindly imitating the painting methods of the predecessors, the most successful achievement is only to become a substitute for the "Gang Shining" in the new era.
To climb higher on the artistic peak, he must draw his own characteristics.
Shengzi has shown him a clear path.
The finger painting method is just a small change in the details of the painting, but it is undoubtedly a very good start
"It is true to incorporate new artistic elements and form your own artistic style"
Gu Tongxiang hasn’t said anything yet.
Hanks’ eyes have already swept over him like two bright searchlights.
I have heard all kinds of stories since I was a child. Growing up, I knew about Michelangelo, Raphael and Giotto when I was just old enough to call my father and mother. When I was four years old, the maid took me on a table-high dwarf. The horse was walking on the banquet lawn of the manor. At that time, I could already say words like Rococo, Baroque, and School of Athens.
I still remember that every time such words came out of my mouth, it was like in the manor. The guests would raise their glasses to my father and shout, "Your Majesty, your son will be the patron of the next artist like you," and my father would laugh heartily.
But I. I still don’t understand what art is.
On Christmas Eve in 1876, my aunt took me to attend Mass at Melk Abbey. I had no impression of it. I remember, it was the first time in my life that I stood under the dome of a church and looked up consciously.
The crystal chandelier exuded a white-gold luster, and everything on the dome seemed like an unfathomable secret. . Athena drove the lion chariot passing through the boiling sea of clouds. I could almost see the flash of light from the distant sky between the wheels and the clouds. The smell of pine and cypress wood and paint floated in the air of the church. At that moment, I But thought it was the OlympicsStrange spices from the Holy Mountain.
Candlelight, Athena, pine and cypress wood. Even when I was five years old, I knew nothing about Paul Trogg, the great Austrian Baroque painter who painted this mural. I also understood that it turned out to be Art.
Austria has a typical temperate broad-leaved forest-style climate.
In mid-to-late March in Gleze, the average temperature is only a few degrees.
Anna was wearing a light brown velvet coat and a dark pink soft hat, sitting quietly in a wheelchair.
In front of her is the commemorative bronze sculpture of her great-great-grandfather, the founder of Oil Painting Magazine, the old Count Irene.
People in Glitz City like the Irina family.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, within a month of the old count's death, they spontaneously raised 120,000 Austrian crowns.
The city government hired the then German Munich sculpture master Kebreland to cast this magnificent two-meter-seven-meter-high sculpture and placed it in front of the oil painting magazine, so that the old count would be forever harmonious. The citizens who loved him stayed together.
Today is the time for Oil Painting Magazine to officially hold a shareholders’ meeting regarding the acquisition of equity by Kruger Brothers Bank.
The meeting location is on the top floor of the magazine headquarters.
As the largest individual shareholder at present, Anna arrived at the magazine building early and was not in a hurry to go upstairs.
The girl has been sitting in front of the ancestor's sculpture for a long time.
Her eyes fell on the engraving of the nameplate under the sculpture. Her eyes were gentle and deep. She could not see sadness or impatience, but she was very calm, as calm as a deep pond.
Anna raised her hand and ran her fingertips under the nameplate of the bronze sculpture, feeling the undulating touch of her fingertips.
"It turns out, this is art."
The girl slowly repeated this message that the old count left on the title page of the first issue of the oil painting magazine many years ago. .
She tried to imagine that on that snowy Christmas night 150 years ago, her ancestors stood under the dome of Melk Cathedral, watching Athena drive the lion chariot across the sea of clouds. A solemn and sacred feeling.
"More than a hundred years have passed since then."
The bronze sculpture in front of us is like a metaphor about the uncertainty of rise and fall.
It silently witnessed the rise and division of empires, the Germanic cavalry crushing the entire Europe, and the world-ending confrontation between the two sides in the Cold War.
No matter how politicians stir up the storm in the world, the iron-gray cloud of war blackly covers everyone's heart, making people unable to breathe.
The Elena family is still studying art like hermits in this old baroque office building with red walls and blue roof.
Just like the flash of bright colors in a black and white movie.
Art and poetry are the flames of hope burning in people’s hearts.
Gu XiThe Greek sages said that as long as there is one person in the world who is still willing to talk about the beauty of the soul in art, then the divine punishment of annihilation will not come, and the glory of human nature will last forever.
Even during the war years,
The citizens of Glitz City also had a belief that as long as members of the Irina family were still working in this building, time would be over. It's like it's frozen.
The sky will not fall, but life can still go on.
It’s just today.
The founder of this oil painting magazine has survived the great changes in the long 19th century, survived the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and defeated NC Germany’s desire for degenerate art. Suppress.
After all, he lost to the financial wave of the new era and was about to be completely expelled from the magazine’s management.
The sky is blue and green, and the wind is a little bit cold.
The distant street orchestra rarely played Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony.
The sound of orchestral music came from the wind, and even the air contained a layer of lonely sadness.
"Woof, woof." The hound barked twice softly.
August also came here today.
Springer spaniels are quite energetic dogs outside.
In addition to sleeping, they tend to have fun at 6 o'clock every day.
Anna’s pet dog doesn’t know whether it’s because it’s old or it understands the girl’s mood.
August did not run out to chase butterflies, nor did he wander around to scare other dogs by grinning.
It lay very obediently at the girl's feet, occasionally sticking out its tongue to lick Sweet Anna's ankles for comfort.
"Hey, if you can, please let the gentlemen change to a more energetic song. The Elena family is not a loser, and there is no need for such a sad tune as a funeral dirge."< /p>
Anna put her hand on August's furry head and ordered softly.
The young woman was very light, and her voice immediately dissipated into the wind.
But Miss Elena’s will was immediately satisfied without compromise.
The secretary standing next to him wearing a gray professional skirt took out a blue 100 euro note from his pocket wallet.
The secretary walked over.
She folded the banknote in her hand and put it into the black top hat in front of the street band, and whispered something.
After a few seconds,
Tchaikovsky’s music stopped, replaced by the cheerful notes of the Blue Danube prelude pouring out from the violin strings And down.
It was created during the war, but it represents a beautiful meaning like the dawn that breaks through the darkness.
Whether the audience is Austrian, Hungarian, or from Poland or Slovakia, any major ethnic group in the former Austro-Hungarian Empire can find elements of their own nation in this Strauss waltz.
Dozens of street symphony orchestras, large and small, in the city of Glitz, all skillfully perform Austria’s second national anthem.
Anna slowly beat the time with her left hand, and slowly scratched the hair on the back of August's neck with her right hand.
Let it make a comfortable humming sound.
"August, I haven't given up yet."
Anna said silently to herself.
She took out a rectangular object wrapped in lemon-toned striped gift paper from the small bag at hand. This was the gift she received from Osborne last night.
A small card hangs from the silk bow above the gift
To dear Ms. Anna Elena
I heard about the acquisition proposal of Oil Painting Magazine I'm very sorry for you. It's hard for me to help you with financial matters. This is a gift I sent to you, I just hope it can make you happier.
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1. The printing teacher forgave me when he saw the effect of the book. He said that this was the most restored and perfect illustration he had ever produced in these years. I agree with him.
2. The commercial videos of the Schostic Group that I have shown you before will also be released across the board starting from this Wednesday.
Love you Uncle Osborne.
Anna read the small card on the silk ribbon. She tore open the gift paper packaging, and an exquisite fairy tale book was revealed from the wrapping paper.
Title of the work: The Little Prince
Original author: Saint-Exupéry, France
Translator: Charlie Hawke, United Kingdom
Illustrator: Detective Cat Algeria
What Anna holds in her hands is a new edition of the Little Prince's fairy tale book.
This is not the kind of product that simply printed out photos and bound white text like the previous market research, but a genuine Little Prince that is ready for sale.
The publishing house is working overtime to finish the work.
The printing assembly line for the new version of The Little Prince has started.
The fairy tale book in front of Miss Elena, which still smells of ink, is the first batch of printed products.
At this moment,
thousands of the same books are being continuously produced in the group’s large printing factory in the Netherlands.
The first edition of The Little Prince has a print run of 300,000 copies, and they will all be printed in the next few days.
There are 250,000 copies of the English version, and 50,000 copies of the French version using the illustrations of the Detective Cat Lady and the original French text of Saint-Exupéry.
These books will be transported through the blood vessel-like logistics network to the group's various affiliated distributors in the EU and the UK. Some of the books will be packaged and sent on ferries, along the Panama Canal to North America, and delivered to the United States and Canadian market.
Schostic Group is one of the largest book publishers in the world.
They will make the little prince an "Easter fairy tale child""Part of the Book Season" will be released simultaneously worldwide at the end of March.
"It looks good"
Anna put the torn gift paper into her bag and showed the books at hand to Austria Gust looked at it.
August said "Wow"
"I like it too. ”
No matter how good the painting is, no matter how hard they work on printing and color correction, they have to look at the cost effect in the end to judge whether their efforts are effective.
After seeing this The Little Prince
Anna knew that Ms. Detective Cat’s work had not been disappointed, that her efforts in studying for her eldest sister had not been in vain, and that even the printing teacher who was about to be driven crazy by Anna’s obsessive-compulsive disorder was worth it.
Just like what Osborne said
This is a very perfect work, so perfect that printing teachers can make such a beautiful book. A proud publication.
Anna flipped through the pages in her hands, checking the imaging quality of each illustration.
There were dozens of them in the thick pages. The illustrations flash by like a fast-moving slideshow, and each page has the solid texture of oil paints. You can clearly see the smallest patterns pressed by the oil painting knife on the surface of the canvas.
" very nice. ”
Even with YCK four-color printing, the output standard of the advanced printing factory affiliated to the Schostic Group with an investment of tens of millions of euros has reached 500i pixels per inch.
Compared to the industry The output resolution of the popular Illustration 300i is almost twice as high as the screen imaging pixels of the early ihone mobile phones. It has reached the quality of photos developed by some photo shops.
It is definitely not worthy of being called that. It's even better than the original painting, and it's not an exaggeration to achieve the brilliance of the artist's original work.
And Anna closed the book and looked at the cover illustration painted in the two main colors of velvet blue and desert gold.
"Except for being too smooth and having a strong specular reflection of sunlight, the printing texture is almost the same as actually holding an oil painting canvas in your hand."
Anna brushed the smooth surface with her fingertips The book cover nodded with satisfaction.
In the eyes of professional art album publishers, receiving such an evaluation is the highest praise for their efforts.
Anna closed her eyes, raised the newly printed Little Prince to her nose, and gently smelled the ink and pages.
“My great-great-grandfather’s artistic enlightenment was candlelight. Athena, pine and cypress wood, I believe that countless children of this generation will be accompanied by the smell of ink in books, allowing them to realize the beauty of art and fall in love with art among the stars, the sea of sand and the little prince. ”
Art is the concrete expression of the desire and yearning for beauty deep in people’s souls in the real world.
No one in the world does not like art.
< p>It’s just that some people are dull by nature, or their full hearts are obscured by the trivial matters of life.Heart of dust.Therefore, for people to fall in love with art, they need a so-called "divine revelation" to wash away the dust and numbness in their hearts with a moment of shock.
Like Miss Elena’s ancestors, looking at Athena on the dome under the Christmas mass hymns and crystal candles is so full of ritual.
It can also be just a moment of being moved by the artistic illustrations on the bus stop after busy work.
As long as a widely circulated illustration is beautiful enough and seen by enough people, it will naturally shock countless people and become an art teacher for tens of thousands of children.
After seeing this book, Anna no longer had any doubts that the work in her hand could do this.
What her nose smelled was not the smell of ink, but the smell of art, the wisps of Zen smoke falling from the incense wood on the altar of the Temple of the Muses.
Money can buy shares in oil painting magazines, but it cannot buy the emotion in people’s hearts.
Of course Anna did not give in.
If the qualifications of Detective Cat Sister were not too weak, Anna believed that this book would have enough qualifications to win the best illustration in the publishing industry this year after its release.
History took 30 years to prove Paul Durandrue's vision for Impressionism, and it took 20 years to prove Larry Gagosian's confidence in Andy Warhol. It took 10 years. Time has blown away the criticism of Picasso’s Blue Style period.
Miss Elena believes that she is luckier than all these people combined.
She only waited for more than two months to get such a set of illustrations in her hands.
This fairy tale book is a sharp sword in her hand, enough to cut off any criticism of Miss Elena's vision.
"Miss Elena"
Wearing a gray professional suit and a quiet face, Elliot raised the Jaeger-LeCoultre moon phase watch on his wrist and glanced at the time.
Elliot is Miss Anna's personal secretary.
She is unwilling to disturb her employer unless it is an emergency.
Especially when Elena is in a bad mood.
It’s just that it’s getting late now. There’s less than a quarter of an hour left before the start of the shareholders’ meeting. The lady is still in a daze in front of the bronze sculpture and has no intention of going upstairs. Elliott can’t help but feel I felt a little anxious.
What makes the secretary even more anxious is that such an important meeting today involves an acquisition proposal worth hundreds of millions of euros and the disturbing news that the Elena family may be kicked out of the management.
Miss Anna actually remained so calm.
Elliot admired the hostess's calmness, but he didn't even bring a financial or legal adviser, and only brought a personal secretary. Isn't it a bit too calm to be calm?
Facing this, but Such a large fortune and the reputation that the Ileana family has accumulated over the centuries.
She is more inclined to deal withCan Ms. Anna’s personal secretary really handle all aspects of life well?
“Your legal team is on standby at the coffee shop two blocks away. If you change your mind, you can call them at any time. ."
"Don't worry, Elliot, today's matter will not be very complicated. I know simple legal common sense, and the agenda of the shareholders' meeting has been handed over to me. It's clear what's going to happen. I'm going to vote against whatever they propose and then get voted down because of insufficient shares."
"Since the best lawyers in the world. You can't change a simple share ratio just by talking, so just save this step."
Ana shook her head calmly.
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